Thursday, March 21, 2013

ECCC 2013: The Cosplayers of Spending Spree Sunday

After the last ECCC 2013 panel discussion, my fiance and I wandered around the examining the wares at all the booths--and watching the cosplayers in action.

For kids growing up in the 80s, "action" most likely meant Masters of the Universe. I had just joined the military when the cartoon debuted, so I never watched it; although thanks to Mattel's marketing campaign, He-Man toys were everywhere. This means I could be wrong about the above pair of cosplayers, but I'm assuming they're He-Man and his arch enemy Skeletor.

I'm going to put more of my ignorance on display here and let you folks know that I don't play very many video games. Nearly all my table-top gaming friends do, so once again I'm only vaguely familiar with the approaching cosplayer...

Technical note: I took a lot more pictures than I've uploaded, but many of them didn't come out well. One of the problems I had was adjusting my camera to the combination natural light and florescent lighting in the convention center. But I thought this cosplayer's stealthy approach was too cool to leave out of this "rogues gallery."

Speaking of rogues, here's another poor picture I included which doesn't do the Jawa justice.

Whoever was in the suit, was a real crowd-pleaser his (her?) antics. There were at least a half-a-dozen camera-armed attendees gathered here at any given time the Jawa made an appearance.

Now a family that attends comic book convention together, stays together...

...as this "Incredible" family can attest to. I snapped three photos of this family and this was the best shot. Maybe I can claim the blurry-looking girl was about to turn invisible?

Nor was this the only blurry image of the day. I don't know who two represent...

...but they were in a hurry and loaded for bear.

I managed to stop this young lady and ask her what her costume represented.

She told me she was a Bad Program from Tron. Good. Now I know who to blame if my computer goes on the fritz.

Another thing I wasn't sure about was using my camera. My fiance was more adept at handling her camera than I was with mine. She only took a few photos, but was fascinated by this "Jacqueline Skellington" (wearing stilts underneath her costume), next to an alternate version of Batman.

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I'm a retired USAF TACP (Tactical Air Control Party) member, now working for Washington State Emergency Management. In addition to being an Emergency Operations Specialist at my day/night/weekend job, I'm a Foreign Affairs Specialist, gamer and writer.
I maintain three blogs as an on-line platform. "Stern Rake Studio," my central site, explores a variety of topics on gaming, pop-culture and writing. "Station WTFO" is where I post comments and discussions on the national and international issues that concern us. Finally, "The Redshift Chronicles," is a spin-off of "Stern Rake Studio." This site focuses on sci-fi gaming and is home to my long-form webcomic "Breakout from Bongolaan."